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GREENBURGH, N.Y. (AP) Derek Fisher was fired as New York Knicks coach, with his team having lost five straight and nine of 10 to fall well back in the Eastern Conference playoff race. Associate head coach Kurt Rambis was promoted to interim head coach at least through the rest of the season. Rambis, like Fisher an ex-Laker player, went 56-145 in two seasons as Minnesota’s coach and part of a…

Enlarge Image Sports Stadium is designed to rival Twitter but had problems during the Super Bowl. Facebook Super Bowl 50 dominated online chatter Sunday, but Facebook in particular couldn’t keep up with the game at times. About 60 million people used Facebook for 200 million posts, likes and comments about the match between the Denver Broncos and Carolina Panthers, the world’s biggest social network said Monday. They also turned to…

GREENBURGH, N.Y. (AP) Derek Fisher was fired as New York Knicks coach, with his team having lost five straight and nine of 10 to fall well back in the Eastern Conference playoff race. Associate head coach Kurt Rambis was promoted to interim head coach at least through the rest of the season. Rambis, like Fisher an ex-Laker player, went 56-145 in two seasons as Minnesota’s coach and part of a…

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HOWELL TOWNSHIP, N.J. (CBSNewYork) — Two parents are accused of attacking a referee at a high school hockey game in New Jersey. As CBS2’s Emily Smith reported the incident happened Sunday afternoon during a Howell High School hockey game against Manalapan at Ice World. Howell Township Police confirmed that a referee called a hockey mom from Howell a curse word, telling her to leave the game for yelling at the…

Enlarge Image Sports Stadium is designed to rival Twitter but had problems during the Super Bowl. Facebook Super Bowl 50 dominated online chatter Sunday, but Facebook in particular couldn’t keep up with the game at times. About 60 million people used Facebook for 200 million posts, likes and comments about the match between the Denver Broncos and Carolina Panthers, the world’s biggest social network said Monday. They also turned to…

Frog Picks Sports fans are competitive. But so far there hasn’t been a great app that lets them jockey for pole position without putting money on the line. Science Inc., the company behind the crazy popular teen app Wishbone, thinks it has the answer. Each day, the new Frog Picks app gives users 13 questions — will the Cavaliers or Pacers win tonight? Will Kobe score more than 30 points? —…

Keith Olbermann joined Jonah Keri’s Nerdist podcast for a two-part marathon late last week. Around the 1:19:00-mark of Part I, they began talking about contemporary sports media, and Olbermann, who as we’re all aware made his bones as a SportsCenter anchor alongside Dan Patrick in the 1990’s, spelled out doom and gloom for the future of the franchise: If you’re doing a sports broadcast that has to do with more than…

Super Bowl fans may be playing Monday morning quarterback today, but the stories that most shake up the sports world aren’t recaps of what happens on the field. L. Jon Wertheim, executive editor of Sports Illustrated, says the biggest headlines are won by investigative stories, from accusations of cheating in professional sports to high school hazing. For this week’s podcast, Wertheim talks with ProPublica senior editor Joe Sexton about some…

Somewhere along the line, Fox realized that Fox Sports 1 can’t (and maybe shouldn’t) compete with ESPN at its own game, and instead decided to court that silent-but-significant minority of sports fans: reactionary, regressive, and crypto- and not-so-crypto-racist. For a hundred years or more, this was the group sports media catered to nearly exclusively, but the rise of the internet and society’s progressive swing left them an underserved market. Fox…

So what exactly is a charter system and why is one needed in NASCAR? NASCAR officials will formally reveal their new charter system during a Tuesday press conference at the Charlotte Convention Center at 1:30 p.m. ET. Neither NASCAR officials nor the Sprint Cup team owners have disclosed many details about the particulars about what they will announce. That said, the charter system is expected to be somewhat similar to…

NEW YORK — The United States Olympic Committee told U.S. sports federations that athletes and staff concerned for their health over the Zika virus should consider not going to the Rio 2016 Olympic Games in August. The message was delivered in a conference call involving USOC officials and leaders of U.S. sport federations in late January, according to two people who participated in the call. Federations were told that no…

  It’s a familiar sound in Minnesota: ice hockey sticks click-clacking as two players face off in pursuit of the puck. But in this game, the players don’t skate on blades. They glide around on a single wheel. Enter the world of unicycle hockey — a fast-paced game that draws a small band of intergenerational, one-wheeled wonders to a church basement gym to practice their riding skills while putting a…

HOWELL, N.J. –  According to a media release issued late Sunday night, the Howell Police Department confirmed that officers responded to Howell Ice World earlier that afternoon in reference to a dispute that occurred between parents and  referees officiating a high school hockey game between Manalapan and Howell. According to the release, which was issued by Howell Police Sergeant Scott Revilak, upon arrival investigating officers “learned that a hockey game took…

RELATED: Watch the announcement here   NASCAR will make a major announcement concerning the 2016 season on Tuesday at 1:30 p.m. ET, according to a media alert issued Monday. NASCAR Chairman and CEO Brian France as well as several key industry executives will be on hand for the announcement.   The announcement will be live streamed on NASCAR.com — you can watch here. In a statement issued Monday, Vice President…

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Enlarge Image Sports Stadium is designed to rival Twitter but had problems during the Super Bowl. Facebook Super Bowl 50 dominated online chatter Sunday, but Facebook in particular couldn’t keep up with the game at times. About 60 million people used Facebook for 200 million posts, likes and comments about the match between the Denver Broncos and Carolina Panthers, the world’s biggest social network said Monday. They also turned to…

Somewhere along the line, Fox realized that Fox Sports 1 can’t (and maybe shouldn’t) compete with ESPN at its own game, and instead decided to court that silent-but-significant minority of sports fans: reactionary, regressive, and crypto- and not-so-crypto-racist. For a hundred years or more, this was the group sports media catered to nearly exclusively, but the rise of the internet and society’s progressive swing left them an underserved market. Fox…

This past December, Colleen Dominguez filed an age and gender discrimination lawsuit against Fox Sports 1. In the complaint, Dominguez, who came to the network in 2014 as a sideline and features reporter after a long run at ESPN, alleged that all the choice assignments were given to younger reporters, most notably Erin Andrews. (The suit listed Dominguez’s age as 54; Andrews is 37.) With that lawsuit pending and enhancing…

Paul Clement won 14 of his 33 matches as Derby County head coach Derby County have sacked head coach Paul Clement after just eight months in charge of the Championship club. The Rams are fifth in the table after seven league games without a victory, though chairman Mel Morris said promotion “was not the primary target”. Morris said Derby had “not made enough progress” under 44-year-old Clement, formerly assistant manager…